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by cgb223 6y ago
Who is behind the Open Society Foundation? Anyone super political?
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by cgb223 6y ago
It’s shameful that one of the worlds best journalistic sources didn’t even bother to reach out to Signal to get comment on a story they ran about them I feel like a lot of today’s mistrust of news stems from publications not verifying sourc
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by cgb223 6y ago
Ubuntu doesn’t literally mean “a bumpy ride” or “a relationship that’s got some trouble in it”
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by cgb223 6y ago
My Google Assistant (on Sonos) will somehow always play the wrong version of the song. Ask for War Pigs? Here’s the live version Ask for a Come Sail Away? Here’s a terrible cover Ask for Magic Stick? Here’s an instrumental I swear it just p
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by cgb223 6y ago
For me I think emojis help more clearly show the emotion of text being written. Sometimes it’s not obvious in which way text can be interpreted so it helps give context that’s missing in non-face to face chat
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by cgb223 6y ago
The map in the article of the United States with just Utah filled in was super helpful...
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Ask HN: Who is disrupting the manufacturing/logistics space?
1 points by cgb223 6y ago|0 comments
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by cgb223 6y ago
> The bank argues that those working from home are saving money and the tax creates a fairer system. While some might be saving money from not driving to work every day, they're spending more in other places like their heating/
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Ask HN: How do Angular and React compare in 2020?
2 points by cgb223 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What is it like founding a tech company outside of the Bay?
4 points by cgb223 6y ago|1 comments
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by cgb223 6y ago
Do you have to use Google’s DNS? I’m currently trying to phase off my dependence on them. Gotta wonder what kind of ad tracking/targeting they do based on DNS lookups you send them
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by cgb223 6y ago
I’ve been thinking about doing this as a weekend project. Does the hardware limitations of the pi mess with download or upload speeds at all? Any weird sites that don’t work with it running? How much better is it than something like ublock
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by cgb223 6y ago
I mean he’s on the $5 bill as well. Isn’t that enough Lincoln for one countries currency?
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by cgb223 6y ago
> non-competes are illegal, stuff you do at home is yours For “stuff you do at home” is there any limit to that? Like if I’m on my own time and my own computer/internet, and I worked at say, a search engine company, and I made my ow
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by cgb223 6y ago
As someone with ADHD I was once prescribed the lowest dose of adderall (5 mg?) and I found it was so much like being high it genuinely scared me I was working from home and the second it kicked in I started getting literal chills down my sp
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by cgb223 6y ago
You should call their bluff and file a complaint on them under the act I’d bet they’d fix it really quick once regulators get involved
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by cgb223 6y ago
Sounds an awful lot like the Twitter Blue Checkmark Hack a few months ago where a hacker got into a db and just reset all the accounts to his own/his friends email addresses www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/7&#x2F
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by cgb223 6y ago
Page views are one of the variables of the page rank algorithm If you keep going to the site over and over, then potentially it counts as new views (albeit not unique ones) That said Google probably exempts their own sites from page ranks s
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by cgb223 6y ago
Ironically, this increases their own page’s pagerank
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by cgb223 6y ago
What good is a dashboard if it doesn’t show actual status
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by cgb223 6y ago
> I slightly guarantee your Klein Bottle for THREE MONTHS against any cracks or breakage, whether due to earthquakes, clumsy undergrads, or greasy fingers. Just mail us a fragment and $10, and we will send a replacement. What a perfect s
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by cgb223 6y ago
My favorite pdf fact is that the security flags for things like copy protection and passwords are on the viewer to implement so you can just turn them off and all the security is gone
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Ask HN: React Native or Native development for apps? (2020 Edition)
9 points by cgb223 6y ago|5 comments
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How Well Does Duolingo Work?(blog.duolingo.com)
1 points by cgb223 6y ago|1 comments
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by cgb223 6y ago
Technically speaking, what occurs when you mark a torrent private? Does it actually block trackers from picking it up or just like tell them not to if they want to obey it?
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by cgb223 6y ago
Looks like the announcement specifically calls out the _Mac_ App Store, so at least not initially... I’d love ublock origin or HTTPS Everywhere on Mobile
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Ask HN: Why is Enterprise software UX so bad compared to Consumer Software?
19 points by cgb223 6y ago|19 comments
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by cgb223 6y ago
How does it compare to Mobile Safari ad blocker plug-ins like 1Blocker?
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by cgb223 6y ago
How is Filecoin different from Sia coin? I remember a while ago hearing about both trying to decentralize storage but never kept up with it enough to really suss out the difference
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by cgb223 6y ago
What does a patent practitioner do? Do you enjoy it?

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